That'd be the effect of the woz's idiot, blue jeans/designer t-shirt wearin' partner coming back without a REAL COMPUTER GUY (read:the woz, obviously [
] ]'> ) to keep said idiot in line. I know he ostensibly saved the company with such gimmicky computers as the iMac & Cube (?) etc, but those products were YEARS in development, long before the (volatile) steve brought his (miserable failure) NeXT technology back to Apple.El Steevo, never liked beige and barely tolerated platinum, add that to the most anally retentive form over function designer extant, and you've got a computer company living off such NON-COMPUTER $-Cows as iPods, iTunes, and most recently iPhones.
Don't even START to remind me about convergence, I'm WELL aware of it, but the Open Source Steam-Roller is going to make an abrupt turn south immediately after "visiting" Redmond and a certain absurd dwelling place!
IMHO, of course . . . }
. . . to get back on topic . . . :
. . . I'm glad so many of my comrades have come together to share info, stories, wants, needs & outrageous plans/desires with me in this attempt to create the most perfect OS 9.X - ADB/SerialMac Escape Pod from the harsh world of Windows & Feline foo-fooery . . . [ 
}BTW, ubuntu, side comments AND SUBJECT MATTER are MORE THAN WELCOME IN THIS THREAD! }